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something the republicans have done for years and romney is not sounding like ronald reagan. ronald reagan in 1986 after cutting taxes for the working poor. >> the bill i'm signing today is not only an historic overhaul of our tax code and a sweeping victory for fairness, it's also the best anti-poverty bill, the best pro-family measure and the best job creation program ever to come out of the congress of the united states. >> okay. ben. that tax reform resulted in fewer people paying taxes. >> it did indeed, and it was the beginning of 30, 35 years of a market etiology in which our assumption was if we reduce the means with which government operates we're going to improve the economic fortunes of the country. that simply has not happened, and, in fact, what we've seen is we've seen tax rates go down, down, down. they were 90%, 80% on the rich in the '50s during the clinton era and 28%. today they are around 18%, but most of the rich like romney don't pay that. they pay even less so what we have is a trickle up theory. give tax breaks to the rich and they will take the money,
something the republicans have done for years and romney is not sounding like ronald reagan. ronald reagan in 1986 after cutting taxes for the working poor. >> the bill i'm signing today is not only an historic overhaul of our tax code and a sweeping victory for fairness, it's also the best anti-poverty bill, the best pro-family measure and the best job creation program ever to come out of the congress of the united states. >> okay. ben. that tax reform resulted in fewer people...
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. >> the newest members that helped elect ronald reagan and george w. bush as the evangelical right, ought to be known for more than opposing gay marriage and abortion. they're now turning their attention on the church itself. >> let me clarify, i love the church, i love the bible, and yes, i believe in sin. but if jesus came to your church, would they actually let him in? >> in my generation, sometime we fall on the side of not thinking or preaching about truth. >> reporter: when you like what he has to say or not, the message is a provocative one. he, himself, he says he's just a kid from the hood with ambitions to have his own flock. and a church, that's right, a church, which won't follow the mold. i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline" in washington. >>> coming up next, fighting tooth and claw for survival. a story of feline strength, internal courage and enduring pride among the last lions alive. se clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shippi
. >> the newest members that helped elect ronald reagan and george w. bush as the evangelical right, ought to be known for more than opposing gay marriage and abortion. they're now turning their attention on the church itself. >> let me clarify, i love the church, i love the bible, and yes, i believe in sin. but if jesus came to your church, would they actually let him in? >> in my generation, sometime we fall on the side of not thinking or preaching about truth. >>...
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. >> ronald reagan pointed missiles at the soviet union. >> when he said all options are on the table was he wrong? >> this was a long time ago when bush was dealing with iran. he was five, six, seven, eight years from dealing with it. under president obama iran has by three times increased the uranium and made it more enriched. >> well, we don't know what president obama's red line is? he won't share it with us. he want to keep it as fuzzy as possible. if he wants to do that privately to him, communicate that privately to the iatola i'm okay with that. but he wants to keep it fuzzy. >> we don't know what the president has said privately to the leader but he has said publicly acquiring a weapon is the red line. >> we know he hasn't told him about the red line. he was criticizing him for not setting the red line. he is leaving him in the dark which is a terrible mistake. >> he said we do what we must to keep iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. >> but mitt romney used the same term. >> the reality is that is very mu fuzzy language can lead to war. there is no point about being fuzzy n
. >> ronald reagan pointed missiles at the soviet union. >> when he said all options are on the table was he wrong? >> this was a long time ago when bush was dealing with iran. he was five, six, seven, eight years from dealing with it. under president obama iran has by three times increased the uranium and made it more enriched. >> well, we don't know what president obama's red line is? he won't share it with us. he want to keep it as fuzzy as possible. if he wants to do...
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reagan. >> ronald reagan, president reagan -- >> gingrich exaggerates, dropping ronald reagan's name, 50 times. but in his memoirs, reagan mentioned gingrich only once and said that his ideas would cripple our defense program. >> but now a newly released video with nancy reagan, praising newt is telling quite a different tale. >> the dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. barry goldwater handed the torch to rone and in turn, ronnie turned that torch over to newt and the republican members of congress to keep that dream alive. >> joining me with reaction, fox news contributor, ed rollins and goil -- >> you worked for the great man, helped to get him re-elected in 1984. you must find all of this amusing that reagan is the conservative i. i am sure he is being down from heaven and find its all amusing. he had less ego than anybody. gingrich was a very important congressional ally. congressmen are not in the white house all day long, giving advice. but me and jack kemp and trent lott and others were among 10 or 12 most important
reagan. >> ronald reagan, president reagan -- >> gingrich exaggerates, dropping ronald reagan's name, 50 times. but in his memoirs, reagan mentioned gingrich only once and said that his ideas would cripple our defense program. >> but now a newly released video with nancy reagan, praising newt is telling quite a different tale. >> the dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. barry goldwater handed the torch to rone...
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ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including former minnesota governor and current vice presidential contender, tim pawlenty, who called mitt romney reagan-esque this morning on "morning joe." >> you know, we just nominated mitt romney, or presumptively nominated mitt romney, who is in the reagan tradition. a conservative with a conservative record, governed effectively in a blue state, working across the aisle. somebody who's produced results. so to look at that and just say, you know, the party wouldn't be capable of endorsing a ronald reagan-type figure today, i think mitt romney is a ronald reagan-type figure. >> last night, fox news's
ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including...
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he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it's actually more interesting to look at what jeb bush is doing because while he's declaring his independence from grover norquist and his party, he's also delivering a kind of vote of no confidence in mitt romney even though he's endorsed him. because i see that as -- it is a bizarre statement for someone if you think -- it's not something you say if you think your party is headed to a great win in november. it's really the kind of thing you hear the morning after an election where you've done very badly. i really wonder what's up with that. >> he's already anticipating a potential loss of mitt romney, should we say? i don't want to put words in your mouth. do you think he's ginning up to that point? >> that's the way i took it. if you're saying we need to race revenues and you -- he also went on to criticize him, you know, quite directly for his immigration, for his really anti-immigrant policies. >> right. >> you know, those are not the kinds of things you do if you ar
he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it's actually more interesting to look at what jeb bush is doing because while he's declaring his independence from grover norquist and his party, he's also delivering a kind of vote of no confidence in mitt romney even though he's endorsed him. because i see that as -- it is a bizarre statement for someone if you think -- it's not something you say if you think your party is headed to a great win in...
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. >> i guess ronald reagan. i would be an ingrate if i didn't say ronald reagan. >> what made him special do you think? >> he was the great communicator. he had a way of making important and complex ideas comprehensible to the people. >> did he give you any advice? >> no. >> did he make any requests? >> no. >> did he say anything? >> no. >> would you tell me if he had. >> he almost got my name right. >> when we went out to the press room in the white house and one of reagan's aides says to me, well, we think he'll get scalia right, but we don't know about antonin. and sure enough he messed up antonin. >> you were the first italian in the supreme court. >> yeah, i was. it was a big deal for the italians. i got an enormous amount of mail afterwards. >> do you ever have to pay for a bowl of spaghetti bolinasse in new york? >> i have a lot of italian friends. >> but i put questions out on twitter of all the serious ones, one popped out which is one is what is his favorite pasta dish. >> my favorite -- >> i hear your
. >> i guess ronald reagan. i would be an ingrate if i didn't say ronald reagan. >> what made him special do you think? >> he was the great communicator. he had a way of making important and complex ideas comprehensible to the people. >> did he give you any advice? >> no. >> did he make any requests? >> no. >> did he say anything? >> no. >> would you tell me if he had. >> he almost got my name right. >> when we went out to...
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my fact in 1982, ronald reagan passed the greatest tax increase in american history. true or false because the same question shaun asked you. >> i talked to the president about it. >> let me go on. let me ask you the second question. >> hold it, lanny, because this is an important point. he was offered $3 in spending cuts for every dollar in taxes increased. he got the reverse. >> the answer is true. secondly, john kennedy was shown on television because shaun liked the speech. you said a reduction from 90 to 71%. bill clinton increased taxes from 35 to 39%, started with a $300 billion deficit. ended with a trillion dollar surplus. all of you and i think you on television predictedicted thered be a recession. 23 million jobs later, there was no recession. >> lanny, if what you say is true, that the clinton tax cuts did it, why doesn't barack obama say let's have back all of the clinton tax hikes? let's have back all of the clinton tax increases object on everybody and we'll have a boom because he knows in his heart what he knew in 2010. you raise taxes on everybody, a
my fact in 1982, ronald reagan passed the greatest tax increase in american history. true or false because the same question shaun asked you. >> i talked to the president about it. >> let me go on. let me ask you the second question. >> hold it, lanny, because this is an important point. he was offered $3 in spending cuts for every dollar in taxes increased. he got the reverse. >> the answer is true. secondly, john kennedy was shown on television because shaun liked the...
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reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world trade organization to try to stop china from cheating wherever possible and question their human rights, but romney thinks that turns america into a door mat. he thinks president obama is letting china walk all over him. he would not push china on that wto stuff. his solution instead is to create a reagan zone. a reagan zone for all of the countries around china. while it is extremely unlikely china would join the reagan zone, our offer to allow china to join would modify their trade and industrial behavior. seriously, that's the plan. it's u
reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world...
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reagan's policies of low taxes and small government. >> some fairly crazed people who are terrified i'll become the nominee have been writing this genuinely whacked out things, some of which are that i didn't know ronald reagan, i wasn't actually involved in the reagan years. >> reporter: a feature of his reallies lately is the attendance of romney campaign surrogates, including members of congress, mingling with reporters and defending the former massachusetts governor from gingrich's attacks. mr. speaker, what do you make of all these romney surrogates who are bird dogging your events day after day? >> it's a free-- it's a free country. >> reporter: what do you think it's a sign of by them? >> i don't know. does the term "desperation" come to mind? >> reporter: now gingrich admits he was unhappy with his two debate performances this week, thrown off stride, he says, by what he calls mitt romney's dishonesty. maurice. >> dean reynolds in orlando tonight. thank you very much. cbs news political director john dickerson is on the campaign trail in miami. okay, john, three days to go.
reagan's policies of low taxes and small government. >> some fairly crazed people who are terrified i'll become the nominee have been writing this genuinely whacked out things, some of which are that i didn't know ronald reagan, i wasn't actually involved in the reagan years. >> reporter: a feature of his reallies lately is the attendance of romney campaign surrogates, including members of congress, mingling with reporters and defending the former massachusetts governor from...
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in 1980, at this point, ronald reagan was 34% in head to head. he picked up 16 points and won 50-43 with a third-party candidate picking up the difference. the incumbent doesn't get more than they pull in head-to-head polls. >> eric: you are predicting a big win for romney? instant that dangerous, over confident? are you worried about that? >> you asked my opinion. we are going to work for every vote. we are pivoting to the general election and working hard. >> eric: you mentioned 1980. let's take a look at the pols. it is fascinating. in 1980, at this time, basically, this week, april of 1980, jimmy carter had 43% being look how far back ronald reagan was. on election day -- man, oh, man, mr. reagan with 50%, carter, 41%, anderson, 6%. he went up 9 points in that time. >> reagan went up 16 points and got to 50 and anderson, of course, dropped down to 6, 7 points. and that was the race. and reagan won new york state. that was the last time that a non-incumbent republican won new york state. >> eric: right now, president obama and romney are much
in 1980, at this point, ronald reagan was 34% in head to head. he picked up 16 points and won 50-43 with a third-party candidate picking up the difference. the incumbent doesn't get more than they pull in head-to-head polls. >> eric: you are predicting a big win for romney? instant that dangerous, over confident? are you worried about that? >> you asked my opinion. we are going to work for every vote. we are pivoting to the general election and working hard. >> eric: you...
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ronald reagan started his re-election year in '84 with eight plus percent under employment. he got it below 8%. president obama has now got the unemployment rate down a full point over the last year. so the trend line, unlike jimmy carter is very clear. melissa: trend line is going other way. it went up this month. went from 7.8 to 7.9. green energy. solar what you want to highlight? more abound, more sole sole of a story of solar energy companies going bankrupt. that is what you guys want to cling to? >> well the fact is, it has been a growth industry overall. there can be right-wing or republican spins on that. over the last year the unemployment rate --. melissa: how much tax dollars and what could the tax dollars spent on? >> can i say, melissa, give the president a little credit here. net more new jobs than when he took office in the wake. melissa: 194,000. >> well, but in the wake of the biggest financial disaster. what does romney do? melissa: got 16 million people who need more jobs at a rate -- four years 194,000 how long would it take to 16 million back to work fou
ronald reagan started his re-election year in '84 with eight plus percent under employment. he got it below 8%. president obama has now got the unemployment rate down a full point over the last year. so the trend line, unlike jimmy carter is very clear. melissa: trend line is going other way. it went up this month. went from 7.8 to 7.9. green energy. solar what you want to highlight? more abound, more sole sole of a story of solar energy companies going bankrupt. that is what you guys want to...
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when you compare it to tip o'neill and ronald reagan or newt gingrich in the second term of bill clinton. both told me, clinton and gingrich, they would get in a room, throw out the advisers and thrash out a deal. >> maybe they began that an sunday. i have the feeling that if you really left it to the president and the speaker, obama and boehner, they could work it out. they got forces behind both that will try to separate them, but that's where their leadership comes into play. look, this country -- i'd rather be an american economically poised for the future than a citizen of any other country in the world. what's standing in the way of us really surging economically is the government, and if we can get together and adopt a bipartisan long-term debt reduction plan, i think our economy's going to take off. >> i want to get into foreign policy now. you are the three amigos, the experts in this genre. i want to talk about the middle east exploding that you've hinted at and also benghazi and susan rice, which i know is a favorite subject of yours, senator. >> so good of you, pierce. it's m
when you compare it to tip o'neill and ronald reagan or newt gingrich in the second term of bill clinton. both told me, clinton and gingrich, they would get in a room, throw out the advisers and thrash out a deal. >> maybe they began that an sunday. i have the feeling that if you really left it to the president and the speaker, obama and boehner, they could work it out. they got forces behind both that will try to separate them, but that's where their leadership comes into play. look,...
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they compare mitt romney to the republican challenger ronald reagan who came from behind in the polls to defeat a democratic president. now the romney team was banking on a bounce like ronald reagan got after the republican national convention. the chairman predicted a significant post convention bounce for the candidate. >> i think we're going to get a bump. we have a better opportunity for a bump as a challenging party so when people get to know mitt romney and get to know who he is and the decent man he is and his story of the american dream and his generosity, i can tell you that i think it's going to be real and visible. >> it's pretty clear things vice haven't worked out the way republicans hoped. there was no bounce for romney. and there's a substantial bounce for president obama out of their convention. in the new cnn poll taken after the democratic national convention, president obama leads mitt romney among likely voters by six points. republican pollsters have the president with a similar lead in its latest poll. mitt romney's reagan plan didn't work. now it's time to bring
they compare mitt romney to the republican challenger ronald reagan who came from behind in the polls to defeat a democratic president. now the romney team was banking on a bounce like ronald reagan got after the republican national convention. the chairman predicted a significant post convention bounce for the candidate. >> i think we're going to get a bump. we have a better opportunity for a bump as a challenging party so when people get to know mitt romney and get to know who he is and...
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ronald reagan during his second term cut defense spending by about 10%. the cold war was winding down. those cuts continued under former president george h.w. bush, about 18% in cuts. and then former president clinton. clinton did start to increase defense spending during his term but it still ended lower than where it was when he took office. another thing that stands out to me about this chart is defense spending. it's higher now than it was in the cold war or even during vietnam. it looks like it was higher during world war ii although there were extraneous spending items then. but the chart is courtesy of the center for american progress and the department of defense. so when you look at that, you have to ask the question, do the claims of national security disaster add up when it comes to the sequestration? i asked that question to someone who should know the answers. >> sequestration could have a devastating impact on our overall economic condition. you ntioned 2 million jobs lost. that could raise the unemployment rate on a national level by about
ronald reagan during his second term cut defense spending by about 10%. the cold war was winding down. those cuts continued under former president george h.w. bush, about 18% in cuts. and then former president clinton. clinton did start to increase defense spending during his term but it still ended lower than where it was when he took office. another thing that stands out to me about this chart is defense spending. it's higher now than it was in the cold war or even during vietnam. it looks...
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right-wing hero ayn rand couldn't stand ronald reagan. she urged people not to vote for ronald reagan and insisted that reagan clearly did not believe in freedom and respect for the rights of the individual, because among many other reasons, reagan opposed the right to choose abortion. that's right, paul ryan, a republican anti-abortion fanatic, has until very recently been publicly proclaiming his philosophical hero to be a woman who was a relentless champion of a woman's right to choose. and ryan's pro-war stance in the congress on every issue and every funding issue involving the iraq war and the afghanistan war would have disappointed rand too. here she is, telling johnny her opinion of the american war of choice at that time. >> but i am dpeagainst the war vietnam, because it is a useless and senseless war, and it does not serve any national interest. >> ayn rand was a much clearer and much more consistent thinker than paul ryan could ever be. and she would have seen through paul ryan's phony devotion to her long before catholics uni
right-wing hero ayn rand couldn't stand ronald reagan. she urged people not to vote for ronald reagan and insisted that reagan clearly did not believe in freedom and respect for the rights of the individual, because among many other reasons, reagan opposed the right to choose abortion. that's right, paul ryan, a republican anti-abortion fanatic, has until very recently been publicly proclaiming his philosophical hero to be a woman who was a relentless champion of a woman's right to choose. and...
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successful pattern to follow, ronald reagan's. on the other hand, you had the debt limit talks in 2011 where president obama in the middle of talks never, until this day, has gotten specific. we don't know if he offered to raise the medicare retirement age. we don't know how much he said he would cut medicare and enact entitlement reform. so he did the opposite. he went into a serious negotiation not as a candidate but as the president and never got specific. it's one of the reasons we never got a big debt limit deal. so i think mitt romney actually is following the reagan pattern. the question is who when it comes to real negotiation with congress will follow through and get it done. i think mitt romney would be stronger at that. the president, if he could have done it, would have done it. >> secretary reich, you said -- >> let me -- with due respect, with due respect to mr. fleischer, the fact is when ronald reagan was running we didn't have the kind of budget deficit we have right now. it's very -- >> that's not the point. >> l
successful pattern to follow, ronald reagan's. on the other hand, you had the debt limit talks in 2011 where president obama in the middle of talks never, until this day, has gotten specific. we don't know if he offered to raise the medicare retirement age. we don't know how much he said he would cut medicare and enact entitlement reform. so he did the opposite. he went into a serious negotiation not as a candidate but as the president and never got specific. it's one of the reasons we never...
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say this, say this about ronald reagan. ronald reagan was an unbelievably good guy in politics and understood compromise. republicans, to call him their hero should take a page from his book. understand you don't get anywhere listening just to wingnuts. don't abandon your principles when you do it. >> dana: oka
say this, say this about ronald reagan. ronald reagan was an unbelievably good guy in politics and understood compromise. republicans, to call him their hero should take a page from his book. understand you don't get anywhere listening just to wingnuts. don't abandon your principles when you do it. >> dana: oka
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say this, say this about ronald reagan. ronald reagan was an unbelievably good guy in politics and understood compromise. republicans, to call him their hero should take a page from his book. understand you don't get anre
say this, say this about ronald reagan. ronald reagan was an unbelievably good guy in politics and understood compromise. republicans, to call him their hero should take a page from his book. understand you don't get anre
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it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> paul ryan is a lot like reagan. >> when ronald reagan talks about god, when paul ryan talks about god, he exists not that he doesn't exist outside of the middle part of the country, but he's alive and well between new york and california. >> reagan escattributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of reagan's own budget architects wrote a skatcathing critique of ryan's plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding error's worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagan's budget director goes on to say he calls ryan's plan phony and calls it devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. so we thought tonight we would take a closer look just at the numbers. joins me is david kay johnson, puttsar prize winning writer. medicare, the way they want to do this right now, ryan
it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> paul ryan is a lot like reagan. >> when ronald reagan talks about god, when paul ryan talks about god, he exists not that he doesn't exist outside of the middle part of the country, but he's alive and well between new york and california. >> reagan escattributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul...
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just as ronald reagan went to at thitip o'neill, was solve a lotn social, jussocial security, jusl clinton was able with newt gingrich was able to reform welfare. we need a president that provides leadership. wattwhat's scary to me, is it fr that any american pays more than half his income to taxes? you have your tax, then healthcare tax, in bakersfield, california, you're well into 50% before you pay a sales tax or anything else. that isn't solving the problem. that's paying nothing down on the deficit. the spending continues to go up by more than 16%. we're in a worse situation we were before. people have less money. they have less opportunity to hire people. and we have less job growth. that is the wrong way to go. that's why we need this president to show some leadership. republicans have shown the leadership by passing the bills, producing they can do it, taking the tough votes to put america on the right back. >> tomorrow is december 11th, that means there are 20 days left. if you had to bet right now, do you think we get a deal? >> i'm hopeful we can. i believe what winston churchil
just as ronald reagan went to at thitip o'neill, was solve a lotn social, jussocial security, jusl clinton was able with newt gingrich was able to reform welfare. we need a president that provides leadership. wattwhat's scary to me, is it fr that any american pays more than half his income to taxes? you have your tax, then healthcare tax, in bakersfield, california, you're well into 50% before you pay a sales tax or anything else. that isn't solving the problem. that's paying nothing down on...
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they did it under their hero ronald reagan. under president george w. bush alone, they allowed massive tax cuts toward medicare part d, all unpaid for, all of those items ballooning the deficit. before president obama, republicans rarely voiced opposition to the federal reserve using monetary policy to help the economy. under president obama, the federal reserve chief ben bernanke is called every name in the book. but you know republicans are trying to sabotage the economy when they vote against tax cuts. as when they opposed extending the payroll tax cut benefiting middle-class americans. let's not forget republicans voted against a stimulus bill that was 40% tax cuts. let's not forget that republicans brought the country to the precipice of default. and when bad numbers hit, they pounce. >> i think under the right leadership, they can do better. >> if they would have taken our advice and worked with us, the economy would be better. more americans would have better jobs. more americans would have better incomes. that's clear to us. >> this is very bad
they did it under their hero ronald reagan. under president george w. bush alone, they allowed massive tax cuts toward medicare part d, all unpaid for, all of those items ballooning the deficit. before president obama, republicans rarely voiced opposition to the federal reserve using monetary policy to help the economy. under president obama, the federal reserve chief ben bernanke is called every name in the book. but you know republicans are trying to sabotage the economy when they vote...
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ronald reagan -- >> he was my age when he said that. >> ronald reagan -- >> it wasn't like he was young. this is what i find a bit odd. he was my age. i'm 47. i think he was about 47. it was 1994. that's what i find to be odd about it. he wasn't young. i couldn't imagine changing my belief about something like abortion at this age. >> sure. i think as we get older, i think we do change. when i say older, i'm talking about every year as we mature -- >> don't you think politicians do it for other reasons? are you not slightly suspicious -- >> no, i think governor romney, what you see with him is what you get. this is what he believes. this is his position. i appreciate his position where he is today on abortion. i appreciate the fact where he stands on the biblical definition of marriage between a man and woman because this is a huge issue in this election, whether people want to admit it or not, for evangelical christians, for churches across the board in the united states, this is the number one issue. >> gay marriage? >> the definition of marriage. god instituted marriage and for the p
ronald reagan -- >> he was my age when he said that. >> ronald reagan -- >> it wasn't like he was young. this is what i find a bit odd. he was my age. i'm 47. i think he was about 47. it was 1994. that's what i find to be odd about it. he wasn't young. i couldn't imagine changing my belief about something like abortion at this age. >> sure. i think as we get older, i think we do change. when i say older, i'm talking about every year as we mature -- >> don't you...
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on real terms, which, again, is about the same as ronald reagan did. so -- >> no, from the total size of the cut, this magnitude would -- relative to the array of issues that our department of defense is addressing around the globe, i believe be unprecedented. if you look at what secretary pennetta has said, he's been clear that the department's ability to meet its requirement, to really execute its mission would be fundamentally impaired by this magnitude a cut. and by that, we're talking about the second $500 billion. >> but then -- let me just get your answer to this. in 2008, we had nearly 188,000 men and women serving on the ground, troops on the ground in iraq and afghanistan. now in 2012, we only have 67,500 and we're going to have even fewer. as we have fewer people actually serving in war, we would appear to need fewer tools for them to use in those wars, right, not more? >> yeah, this isn't just a matter of quantity. if you look at the capital investment in the nation's infrastructure, to support our military over this last decade, we've had
on real terms, which, again, is about the same as ronald reagan did. so -- >> no, from the total size of the cut, this magnitude would -- relative to the array of issues that our department of defense is addressing around the globe, i believe be unprecedented. if you look at what secretary pennetta has said, he's been clear that the department's ability to meet its requirement, to really execute its mission would be fundamentally impaired by this magnitude a cut. and by that, we're...
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later, ronald reagan's budget director destroys paul ryan's budget. interesting there. >>> and all of a sudden, republicans care about offending minorities. we'll tell you about joe biden's chain remarks ahead. stay with us. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. tap into a single pool of shareable data and add up to 10 different devices, including smartphones and tablets. the first plan of its kind. share everything. only from verizon. now add a tablet for only $10 monthly access. i wish i could keep it this way. [ dr. rahmany ] you see, even after a dental cleaning... plaque quickly starts to grow back. but new crest pro-health clinical plaque control toothpaste can help. it not only reduces plaque... it's also clinically proven... to help keep plaque from coming back. plus, it works in these other areas dentists check most. ♪ new crest pro-health clinical plaque control toothpaste. life opens up when you do. for extra plaque protection try new crest pro-health clinical rinse. >>> w
later, ronald reagan's budget director destroys paul ryan's budget. interesting there. >>> and all of a sudden, republicans care about offending minorities. we'll tell you about joe biden's chain remarks ahead. stay with us. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. tap into a single pool of shareable data and add up to 10 different devices, including smartphones and tablets. the first plan of its kind. share everything....
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"back to my dad's time, and ronald reagan's time. they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support, he said. reagan would be, quote, criticized for doing the things that he did." that earned jeb bush this response today from anti-tax enforcer and reagan worshipper, grover norquist. "there's a guy who watched his father throw away his presidency on a two to one ratio of spending cuts and tax increase promise, and he thinks he's sophisticated by saying that he'd take a ten to one promise. he doesn't understand, he's just agreed to walk down the sam alley his dad did with the same gang and he thinks he's smart. you walk down that alley, you don't come out." joining me now, msnbc's john heilemann and jonathan capehart. john heilemann, you wonder if the younger generation of republicans like some of these current governors understood what ronald reagan actually did as president, and the kind of compromises that he actually made with democrats. >> well, lawrence, some of them clearly do. governor bush understands exactly -- >>
"back to my dad's time, and ronald reagan's time. they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support, he said. reagan would be, quote, criticized for doing the things that he did." that earned jeb bush this response today from anti-tax enforcer and reagan worshipper, grover norquist. "there's a guy who watched his father throw away his presidency on a two to one ratio of spending cuts and tax increase promise, and he thinks he's sophisticated by saying that he'd take a...